Patterns of Conflict Slide 108

Patterns of Conflict

Patterns of Conflict Slide 108

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Okay, so look at the counter-guerrilla campaign. Pretty busy chart in one chart. That's the kind of things we should have been doing. You might see my bullet down here, I’ve got an asterisk at the bottom [laughter]. You've got my asterisk. If you can’t do it, you better start getting on the other side, otherwise life’s going to get goddamn uncomfortable pretty soon. So you better get with the program, is what I’m trying to tell you. Why lose? It's more fun to win, huh?

Note what we're doing. These two bullets are the most important because it really sets up everything else, doesn't it? These two are very important. That’s what Magsaysay understood. It sets up everything else, and then you can play the game. If you don’t get that right, you don’t even get to play a lot of this stuff. That's why the first two are very important. That sets up the rest. Instead, we start operating down at this level and don’t pay attention, and then it goes on, and on, and on. We'll never get there. The ideas are actually very simple, but for some reason we resist the goddamn thing. I mean really, the ideas are very simple. Maybe that's why we don't like them. They're not sophisticated enough or something. I don't know.

You can see they're very simple. They're very useful. I have a little note directed to this.